"Violence escalates, then normalizes with consistency and efficiency, until entire societies are destroyed." @nookyelur.bsky.social on the Wired to Steal model and #Fanon for our #PublicAffairs series: massreview.org/2026/08/21/w...

"I see my life and personal experiences as the moving pieces I can use to tell stories. All stories are possible outcomes or possible universes." Interview with Jennifer Delgadillo, author of "The Interpreter" from the summer issue. Up on the blog and substack now!

And our Honorable Mention goes to Elisabeth Jaquette, translator of Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq’s “Scenes from Behind the Siege” from our Winter 2025 issue!

Less than two weeks to send us work before we close for the summer! massreview.org/new-submissi...

#WesternMass friends! Join UMass' Comp Lit Program and @interlinkbooks.bsky.social tomorrow for their "Lebanon in Words & Music" reading and concert. The event takes place tomorrow April 15th at 7:00 pm in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, UMass.

"The court of public opinion matters, because the public has power. In other words, the end of romance is where our own political work begins." Jim Hicks' review of Colangelo-Bryan's THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

Thank you to everyone who made a donation in the waning days of 2025! We know things seems scary and uncertain, but we'll continue to bring you the voices from around the globe that give us all a little hope.

Check out our previous contributors' winter publications and events: massreview.org/2025/12/11/w...

We're officially one week out from #GivingTuesday2025! Please consider joining us in our mission of platforming writers whose perspectives are desperately needed in these times with a gift!

We're pleased to announce we will be hosting a virtual #reading with the guest editors of our forthcoming special issue, Incarceration & Families, along with contributors and their families on Dec. 10th at 7:30 pm est! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/incarcerat...

Join us for an evening of Palestinian music and storytelling with award-winning novelist, Sahar Mustafah, 📚and a performance by Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble 🎶. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. Free and open to the public! Date: Friday, Dec 5, 7:00pm Location: UMass, Amherst

#WesternMass friends! The Massachusetts Review published Sarah Ihmoud and Devin Atallah's searing A World Without Palestinians in February 2024. Sarah Ihmoud is giving a talk at Smith College on Tuesday November 11th titled "Hunger and the Palestinian Womb"

"Verses and images that travel in and reappear through time and space are instructive signs for how the novel approaches language." Kanyin Ajayi looks at the language and story of Issa Quincy's ABSENCE for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/09/18/a...

#WesternMass Friends! Come hear a talk with professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:

"We have so few moments when we can take a breath away from the war in Gaza." Sara Awad mourns Gaza and its spaces of solace in AL-BAQA CAFÉ: massreview.org/2025/08/29/a...

Celebrating #juneteenth2025 with a look back at Ifa Bayeza's review of @CarlHancockRux's 2021 performance at Lincoln Center: massreview.org/node/10128/

"Though I’ve tried quite a few, / I’ve sought differently brewed / Types of malty. Come taste what I’ve found." Our #BrewReviewer Marsha Bryant is back with a new list of beer recco's for your malty preferences: massreview.org/2025/05/27/m...

"But what touches me even more deeply is how we’ve all become each other’s lifeline in the kitchen." Maha Hussaini shares a moment of hope and faith and food in the face of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza: massreview.org/2025/05/02/s...

Happy #InternationalWorkersDay, in solidarity with workers in our Western Mass backyard and around the globe 💪 Celebrating with a note from our founding editor, the late Jules Chametzky, about the forming of a labor union at UMass: massreview.org/volume-44-is...

Excited to announce Chard deNiord as this year's winner of our Anne Halley Poetry Prize! His poem "This Side of You" will be turned into a broadside and a reading with Chard will be held later this Spring in western Mass! themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/2025-winne...

Love to see this #PalestinianLiterature set up at Amherst Books!

"The thing about a Tai or a Heather is we don’t tolerate a lot of being pushed around by the world." Heather Jones(heatherjones.bsky.social) looks at @jendireiter.bsky.social's ORIGIN STORY for #MassReviews: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/poison-cur...

"For me #Arabic is the first spark. . .although I write in English, I am driven by Arabic sounds, the voices of Imru’ al-Qays, Abu Tammam, al-Mutanabbi and others." #Poet Ahmad Almallah on language for our #10Questions: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questio...

Happening Friday February 21st, we're hosting an event with Amherst College's Center for Humanistic Inquiry, continuing the discussions of #PalestinianLiterature and Resistance from THE VIEW FROM GAZA, our current Winter issue. massreview.org/node/12197

"I ended up going to the poem to ask questions, to recount the concrete details that contributed to the way I was feeling, to find a structure. . ." @chelsdingman.bsky.social answers our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12161

Check out Christos Kalli's review of Joseph Fasano's THE LAST SONG OF THE WORLD for #MassReviews #BOAeditions: massreview.org/node/12237

Thinking about these words from MLK, creative protest, and Thoreau, from our centennial gathering issue published in 1962 #mlkday2025 #resist

"If you like a clean lager (no frills),/ Here’s a beer that might just fit your bill" MR's resident limerick writer Marsha Bryant has some new brew reviews for the new year: massreview.org/node/12231

Time is running out for #writers to score a five-hour consult with MR's Public Affairs and Prose editor, Shailja Patel: www.32auctions.com/organization...

#Translators! Bid on a 3-hour cosult with Mass Review's translation editor, Mona Kareen, before Friday. www.32auctions.com/organization...